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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you......
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Open University course team. The team has eight members who will work closely together for a period of at least three years on the development of a new course. A lot of the business of meetings involves commenting on each other's drafts of course units, but there is also pressure for the team to meet publishing deadlines. (b) The manager of an 'instant' print shop which...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...course Mastering systems thinking in practice. This course offers a digital badge as evidence of your participation...Systems thinking and practice: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: display confidence in using systems concepts and language describe accurately the set of key systems concepts understand what is distinctive about systems...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B207 Shaping business opportunities. The full course explores how organisations work by looking at their internal functions (operations management, human relations, finance and marketing). You will also learn about the external environment for businesses and how the economic and political context helps shape how...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B324 Marketing and society...Social marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and explain the meaning and nature of social marketing analyse social marketing problems and suggest ways of solving these recognise the range of stakeholders involved in social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...course will give you an opportunity to reflect on who you are as a hybrid leader and how you want to develop. It will help you understand how to empathise with your workforce and how to adapt your communication skills when working in the office and when working remotely. It will prompt you to start thinking about how you can encourage your workforce to flourish and thrive...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...course will explore what workplace wellbeing means in a hybrid working world – whose responsibility it is, the challenges involved in creating and maintaining it, and the benefits it brings to your organisation...How is your workforce doing? What impact did the post-COVID-19 ‘pivot to online’ and the processes and practices that have followed have on staff...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...badged open course Effective communication in the workplace...Change management for hybrid working: 4.3 Change networks - A change network is a group of individuals who lead and support colleagues through change during a time of transition or transformation. Establishing a change network provides reinforcement to the messages being delivered through line management...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs